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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "When you look at count one, ground (c), there is a claim that the Governor paid full salary and benefits to Dr. Ntoiti, Mr. Paul Mwaki, Mr. Kenneth Kimathi Mbae and Mr. Joseph Kature Mbae. So, you are accused of contempt of court in one count, then you are accused of paying salary and benefits in another count. First, this Senate will reflect on the question of whether the function of employment of these employees and their remuneration is a function of the Governor within the county government structure. However, for now, let me inform you that that act of paying these five people is in compliance with that very order. If the relevant county official fails to comply with the order to pay, he is accused of attempt of court. If he complies by paying, he is accused of making the same payment to the same people. In good conscience, that is the case in respect of which the Governor has been most dramatically described by the assembly representation. The next category of claims would be claims focusing on the person of the deputy governor. I will briefly address some of these claims in my next limb. The next category of claims are plainly false claims. One of the hardest parts of my preparation for this case is how you prepare to respond to a lie apart from saying that it is a lie. For example, you will get a claim that somebody by the name Kathure Rukaria, James Karimi and Lydia Nkatha are relatives of the Governor. They simply are not her relatives. How much more do you say to that? You have been told that the Governor has employed Rose Guantai and Hellen Guantai in the county government. These are employees of the National Police Service (NPS). They are police officers employed by a completely different constitutional body. Hon. Senators, you know better than I do that as protected state officials, the level of latitude 1, is given to consult with the authorities in the police services for purposes of allocating new security. You do not become an employer of that person. You will be told that the governor has embezzled county funds through one Miriam Guantai. The evidence in support of that will be some attachments in pages 17 all the way to page 29 of the exhibits in support of the impeachment Motion. You will then go there looking for the name of Miriam Guantai as a recipient of the money and you will not get it there because it is false. You will be told that Nephat Kinyua is a brother in-law to the Governor. I have had to reflect on the meaning of the word ‘brother-in-law.” We have presented before you a marriage certificate of Nephat Kinyua. This is because the name brother-in-law is a relationship that arises out of a marital relationship to show you who he is married to in a monogamous union. That person is neither a relative of the Governor nor the Governor’s husband. I do not know how one generates a brother-in-law relationship outside that context."
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